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Welcome to the 6 th HPCAC and CSCS Switzerland Conference
Welcome to the 6th HPCAC and CSCS Switzerland
Conference
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Day 1 Agenda
9:00-9:15 Welcome session (Gilad Shainer, HPC Advisory Council; Hussein Harake, Swiss
Supercomputing Centre)
9:15-10:00 Dimensioning Data Centre Resiliency (Sadaf Alam, Swiss Supercomputing Centre)
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-11:30 Keynote session: Adaptive Routing for Scalable Topologies (Dror Goldenberg, Mellanox)
11:30-12:00 Enabling Leading Energy Efficient, Ultra High Dense and Large Scale Supercomputing
towards Exascale (Alexander Moskovsky, RSC)
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-13:30 Application experiences on DDN’s IME Burst Buffer (James Coomer, DDN)
13:30-14:15 Increasing cluster throughput while reducing energy consumption for GPU workloads
(Federico Silla, Universitat Politècnica de València)
14:15-15:00 Reproducibility of CAE-computations through Immutable Application Containers (Christian
Kniep, QNIB Solutions)
15:00-15:30 HPC and Software Modernization – Parallel is the Path Forward (Herbert Cornelius, Intel)
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-16:30 Lustre based Enterprise Storage – Tuning clients for optimal performance (Torben Kling
Petersen, Seagate Technology)
16:30-17:00 Slim Fly: A Cost Effective Low-Diameter Network Topology (Torsten Hoefler, ETH Zürich)
17:00-17:45 Applications Performance Optimizations – Best Practices (Pak Lui, HPC Advisory Council)
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Day 2 Agenda
9:00-10:00 Keynote: High-Performance and Scalable Designs of Programming Models for Exascale
Systems (Dhabaleswar K. Panda, Ohio State University)
10:00-10:15 Coffee Break
10:15-11:30 IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center (Branislav Jansík, IT4Innovations,
Technical University of Ostrava)
11:30-12:00 Energy efficient performance and capacity - Next Gen Enterprise ClusterStor Solution
(Torben Kling Petersen, Seagate Technology)
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-13:30 Sponsorship Session (Seagate)
13:30-14:15 HPC Market Update (Addison Snell, Intersect 360)
14:15-15:00 The InfiniBand Subnet Manager from Fabriscale (Tor Skeie, Simula Laboratory)
15:00-15:45 Addressing Challenges of Data-Intensive Research (Maciej Remiszewski, Interdisciplinary
Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling, University of Warsaw)
15:45-16:15 Coffee Break
16:15-16:45 Making technical computing available to everyone - bringing HPC to the cloud (Wibke
Sudholt, CloudBroker)
16:45-17:30 Applications Performance Optimizations – Best Practices (Pak Lui, HPC Advisory Council)
18:00-20:00 Evening Event
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Day 3 Agenda
9:00-9:40 Parallel Implementation of PK-PD Parameter Estimation on Xeon Phi Using Grid Search
Method (Nishant Kumar Agrawal, Tata Consultancy Services)
9:40-10:30 Keynote: HPC at the University of Denmark (Ali Syed, The Center of Biological Studies, the
Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen)
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-11:30 Accelerating Big Data Processing with Hadoop, Spark and Memcached (Dhabaleswar K.
Panda, Ohio State University)
11:30-12:00 High throughput Data Acquisition at the CMS experiment at CERN (Andre Holzner, CERN)
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-13:45 LRZ SuperMUC Phase 2 – The Story Continues with Lenovo (Torsten Bloth, Lenovo)
13:45-14:15 eScience Training and Education in Sweden (Anders Hast, Swedish eScience Education)
14:15-14:30 Coffee Break
14:30-16:30 Special Training Session for HPC Systems Managers and Users: EDR InfiniBand,
Multicast Operations (setup flow and diagnostic tools), Traffic Load Balancing, InfiniBand
Quality Of Service, System Debugging, and open Q&A (Oded Paz)
16:30-17:30 Cluster Competition
17:30 Farewell and prize raffle
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Administration
• The conference goals
– Education, training, solutions, futures
• 3 days conference and a tight schedule
– We encourage live discussions
– We want to have all sessions start in time
– There are breaks for offline discussions
• Speakers – make sure we have your slides!
• Evening event on Tuesday
• Raffle Wednesday afternoon
• Please visit our sponsors tables
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HPC Advisory Council Members
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HPC Advisory Council HPC Center
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R730
32-node cluster
HP Cluster Platform 3000SL
16-node cluster HP ProLiant SL230s Gen8
4-node cluster
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R815
11-node cluster
Dell™ PowerEdge™ C6145
6-node cluster
Dell™ PowerEdge™ M610
38-node cluster
Dell™ PowerEdge™ C6100
4-node cluster
White-box InfiniBand-based Storage (Lustre)
Dell™ PowerEdge™
R720xd/R720 32-node cluster
Dell PowerVault MD3420
Dell PowerVault MD3460
InfiniBand
Storage
(Lustre)
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Exploring All Platforms
X86, Power, GPU, FPGA and ARM based Platforms
x86 Power FPGA ARM GPU
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• LS-DYNA
• miniFE
• MILC
• MSC Nastran
• MR Bayes
• MM5
• MPQC
• NAMD
• Nekbone
• NEMO
• NWChem
• Octopus
• OpenAtom
• OpenFOAM
• MILC
• OpenMX
• PARATEC
• PFA
• PFLOTRAN
• Quantum ESPRESSO
• RADIOSS
• SPECFEM3D
• WRF
140+ Applications Best Practices Published
• Abaqus
• AcuSolve
• Amber
• AMG
• AMR
• ABySS
• ANSYS CFX
• ANSYS FLUENT
• ANSYS Mechanics
• BQCD
• CCSM
• CESM
• COSMO
• CP2K
• CPMD
• Dacapo
• Desmond
• DL-POLY
• Eclipse
• FLOW-3D
• GADGET-2
• GROMACS
• Himeno
• HOOMD-blue
• HYCOM
• ICON
• Lattice QCD
• LAMMPS
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University Award Program
• University award program – Universities are encouraged to submit proposals for advanced research – Once / twice a year, the HPC Advisory Council will select a few proposals
• Selected proposal will be provided with: – Exclusive computation time on the HPC Advisory Council’s Compute Center – Invitation to present in one of the HPC Advisory Council’s worldwide workshops – Publication of the research results on the HPC Advisory Council website
• 2010 award winner is Dr. Xiangqian Hu, Duke University – Topic: “Massively Parallel Quantum Mechanical Simulations for Liquid Water”
• 2011 award winner is Dr. Marco Aldinucci, University of Torino – Topic: “Effective Streaming on Multi-core by Way of the FastFlow Framework’
• 2012 award winner is Jacob Nelson, University of Washington – “Runtime Support for Sparse Graph Applications”
• 2013 award winner is Antonis Karalis – Topic: “Music Production using HPC”
• 2014 award winner is Antonis Karalis – Topic: “Music Production using HPC”
• To submit a proposal – please check the HPC Advisory Council web site
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International Student Cluster Competition
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Getting Ready to 2015 Student Cluster Competition
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2015 HPC Advisory Council Conferences
• USA (Stanford University) – February 2015
• Switzerland – March 2015
• Germany (ISC’13) – July 2015
• Brazil – Aug 2015
• Spain – Sep 2015
• Singapore – Oct 2015
• China (HPC China) – Oct 2015
• South Africa – Dec 2015
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The 6th HPCAC and CSCS Conference
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